Sepsis severity score: An internationally derived scoring system from the surviving sepsis campaign database

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1969-1976

  Osborn, Tiffany M ^a   Phillips, Gary ^b   Lemeshow, Stanley ^b   Townsend, Sean ^c   Schorr, Christa A ^d   Levy, Mitchell M ^e   Dellinger, R Phillip ^d  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Division of Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery   (United States)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute Physiologic and Chronic Health Evaluation; case mix adjustment; critical care; database; early treatment; injury severity score; intensive care; international; logistic model; mortality; outcome assessment; quality; risk; risk adjustment; risk assessment; sepsis; septic shock; severe sepsis; severity of illness; survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA BASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SEPSIS SEVERITY SCORE; SEPTIC SHOCK;

ALGORITHMS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHOCK, SEPTIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84906789771     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000416     Document Type: Article

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